CLLCT – the Collective Family gives you neat music

February 6, 2010 2 comments

The Collective Family is a group of artists who give their music away! We got together and decided we’d rather share our music so that more people could enjoy it. After all, isn’t the most noble goal of mankind to make neat music and then put it online for free? Well, we think it is, anyway.

On the Aeroplane Over the Sea (Except not Really) album cover I havent’ listened to much from CLLCT but I’m weirdly in love with this:  something that seems horrible in concept  -

“hey, lets redo Neutral Milk Hotel’s On an Aeroplane Over the Sea as one person singing and strumming an ukelele”

yet it works.

The King of Carrot Flowers, Pt. 1

Holland, 1945

Howard Zinn on American Empire

January 31, 2010 4 comments

a recap of Zinn’s views on the American Empire in cartoons. narrated by Viggo Mortensen

we miss you, Howard.  rest well

video here


were I on twitter

January 29, 2010 14 comments

I could write something like

I’m eating barley mushroom soup.  good

but I’m not on twitter


Bruce and Bob done better

January 29, 2010 4 comments

I’ve never understood Bruce Springsteen’s Dancing in the Dark – the music is so upbeat and the lyrics such a downer. but hey, he wrote it, he knew what he was doing.  I was delighted to find a cover of Dancing…that’s a lot closer to how I imagine it to be, very melancholic, quietly desperate.

Mary chapin carpenter almost home

Dancing in the Dark

here’s another cover.  from the 1970 Amchitka concert, one of few tapes that had remained undiscovered ’til recently. Joni Mitchell has never sounded better.

Carey / Tambourine Man

Joni Mitchell, James Taylor, Phil Ochs

QotD: RIP J.D. Salinger

January 29, 2010 16 comments

J.D. Salinger died this week at the age of 91. How many times have you read Catcher in the Rye? How did it impact your life?

y’all know how much I dislike the QotD, but today it serves a purpose

among the avalanche of JDS obits, memories, and remembrances here be my two cents:   I read Catcher in the Rye,  didn’t relate to it at all,  found Holden annoying and whiny.  the Glass family stories are interesting.

yet I got to tip my hat to JDS – when he ran out of things to say, he shut up.

may all of us be that smart

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one of the saddest things I’ve read

January 28, 2010 17 comments

or horrifying.  can't decide yet.

"
WARNING: Thyroid hormones, including SYNTHROID, either alone or with
other therapeutic agents, should not be used for the treatment of
obesity or for weight loss. In euthyroid patients, doses within the
range of daily hormonal requirements are ineffective for weight
reduction. Larger doses may produce serious or even life threatening
manifestations of toxicity, particularly when given in association with
sympathomimetic amines such as those used for their anorectic effects.

"

for real?

they actually have to warn doctors that this is a drug to treat a clinical condition and that it should not be given to fatties to get them to drop some weight already?

color me shocked.

even worse, in case a doctor is tempted to give it to a fattie anyways, the warning continues to say that the drug doesn't 'help' if your thyroid is normal anyway.

there is, by the way, a long list of WARNINGS regarding the use of the drug, including increased risk of heart disease, osteoporosis, gastrointestinal problems, reproductive and cognitive functions, stunted growth in the young, etc.

but hey, it can lead to weight loss, so hook me up already! 

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Howard Zinn, RIP

January 28, 2010 Leave a comment

this really sucks.  Howard is one of my heroes.  
goodbye dude – I'm sure Studs Terket is chilling some brews already

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State of the union address 2010 – liveblog

January 28, 2010 Leave a comment

never mind.  watching the liveblog chez Jodi's

 join us

liveblog below

 I'm bored, so why not.  get an appropriate beverage and play along in the comments.  if you want
watching on FOX

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of interest to writers in the ‘hood

January 23, 2010 Leave a comment

I do not know all the details of the Google book settlement, except that it is good for Google.  it is outrageous that the Author's Guild took it upon themselves to negotiate with the big G in behalf of all US writers. 
the deadline for writers to add their names to the petition for the US to be exempted from the settlement is on Monday January 25 2010.

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information overload – the internet in 2009

January 23, 2010 3 comments

a nice pool of data to jump in.   with references!

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